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Upsidedown. the ntsb and federal railway administration are on the scene. >> were looking at the track, the train signals and the operation of the train, mechanical condition of the train, human performance. were setting up a multidisciplinary investigation to try and understand the factors that led to this accident. >> the derailment is impacting travel across the country and raising questionings today about the state of our nations infrastructure, well dig into that as well as what the ntsb is...

Cpac. >> it might clang today because he has his followers. >> i was just going to say. talk about bussing in this is what the pauls do at cpac man. this is why a paul has won the straw poll i think 4 out of the last 6 years or whatever it is. thats because they do a good job bussing people in. so i wouldnt be surprised if it comes across as if hes well received but dont overinterpret because i go back to what i said at the top. as cpac goes so goes cpac. >> chuck todd well be watching "meet the...

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And we need to look at how well the air traffic control system operates and how it organizationally works and how good the human performance and was what the culture is and where the best practice is and was efficiency promoted and was this a rigid more bureaucratic system that lacked flexibility and those will be important things if this turns out to be a weather-related event and i should say in almost every accident its never the result of a single failure and a single fault or single error a...

Did manage to create a small and inexplicable international incident where nobody had any idea what he was talking about, but it did make everybody very angry and that ended up being the one way that his presidential campaign made a splash. oops. rick perry was the perfect candidate on paper. in real life, rick perry was a disaster. what has been fascinating to watch since then is that governor rick perry of texas appears to have taken one lesson from his disastrous campaign for president in 201...

But i want to bring in some of your experience here because its kind of an interesting point. you are what is known with the ntsb office. what exactly does that position entail? >> the u.n. specialists look at the underlying cause for human error. i was the ntsbs first, actually, they changed the name to human performance, but i was an aviation expert. sometimes we do a psychological autopsy, but often after we look at the recorders, the flight data will help you what happened. tippic ily we loo...

>> i would apologize from the bottom of my heart and i would say, listen, were going to set new policies and procedures and make sure that this never happens again. >> and lastly, sir, where are we on the investigation itself? >> well, theyve had a hearing. the ntsb had a hearing on it. and they are zeroing in on pilot error and zeroing in on how the three piles in the cockpit interreacted with the sophisticated fly-by wire system that governs the plane. but its going to come down to human perfo...

Members onboard safely touching down at the small county airport. they were bussed seven miles to the branson airport, where they were supposed to land. world leaders paid tribute today to former prime minister ariel sharon, who died saturday at the age of 85. he spent eight years in a coma after a stroke. vice president joe biden led the u.s. delegation in his first trip to israel since march 2010. biden set to meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu during the visit. alex rodriguezs at...

Support of that, that again when it gets local, its a very different issue. i think that politicians will be a little bit skittish on this issue. its not like its the number one issue for most people when they go to the polls. is it necessarily to their benefit too get behind these ballot measures? well have to see on that front. if youve got somebody like governor brown whos saying, whoa, hold on a second, thats really kind of an indication of things to come i think. >> well have to get you guy...

Have some evidence of that. im not sure that -- that theyre going to get a lot of information from him. but certainly theyre going to be looking at things like the track, whether the brakes, in fact, were workable. how fast the train was going. and -- and because there have been previous accidents there, whether the speed of 30 is a reasonable speed to have. presumably it is, as thousands of trains have gone by there. but, you know, the real issues are the track, the brakes, the human performanc...